Gaming technology company has been involved in online poker game development since 2006 US online poker consultant, tournament and reality show presenter World Poker Fund Holdings has announced that it has signed a $15 million agreement to acquire RealDeck, Inc., a technology company that has been involved in online poker game development since 2006 and holds valuable intellectual property rights....
Filings by New York AG unearth some interesting prior enforcement action on DFS The request for an injunction against daily fantasy sports operator DraftKings made early in November by the New York Attorney General's Office (see previous InfoPowa reports) has brought to light some interesting information about actions against DFS in another state. In its submission to New York Judge...
Ticket retailers fear that state lotteries going online will impact their businesses The National Association for Convenience and Fuel Retailing (NACS) in the United States has made no secret of its anti-internet lottery position in the past (see previous InfoPowa reports) and has reiterated its support for the Restoration of America's Wire Act, a federal proposal that seeks to prevent...
Racetrack owner says that daily fantasy sports advertising illustrates the hypocrisy of the leagues' support for PASPA A seminar on daily fantasy sports hosted by a New Jersey law firm Friday produced some interesting perspectives, especially from Jeff Gural of the Meadowlands Racetrack. Gural supports New Jersey's bid to overturn the federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, which restricts...
Online gambling is a state - not federal - responsibility says ACU chief Dan Schneider, the executive director of the American Conservative Union, has come out strongly on the proposed Restoration of America's Wire Act proposal that seeks a federal ban on internet gambling, urging Congressional lawmakers to respect the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which protects states' rights....
Lawmaker asks state AG for opinion on legality There could be a daily fantasy sports storm brewing in Texas following the news that state Republican Rep. Myra Crownover has asked the state Attorney General for an opinion on the legality of the genre in Texas. Crownover's letter to Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton notes that Texas law has "generally...
Competitive Enterprise Institute publishes the facts US online gambling expert Michelle Minton has published another of her factual articles designed to rebut some of the misinformation on the genre pushed out by opponents of online gambling like Sheldon Adelson's Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling. In a piece published this week on the Competitive Enterprise Institute website, Minton says that in...
It appears Rep. Chaffetz has learned the lesson that a balanced witness list has more credibility The congressional hearing on the Restoration of America's Wire Act scheduled for today by Rep. Jason Chaffetz's House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform looks likely to be a more balanced affair than the farcically biased last hearing on RAWA back in March, when...
The title of this hearing says it all Further light has been thrown on the Restoration of America's Wire Act Congressional hearing scheduled for December 9 (see previous InfoPowa report), and the title given to the hearing by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman, Jason Chaffetz, is revealing. Chaffetz, now notorious for stacking the deck against online gambling with...
Action group determined that any money won in the courts will go to player pockets and not those of the state The Poker Players Alliance action group has filed a motion to join a State of Kentucky lawsuit against certain Pokerstars associates which is seeking to claim millions of dollars in player losses between 2006 and 2011 (see previous InfoPowa...
